Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to see how this sort of impersonation will react on the true "college boy" when he sets out on an honest-to-goodness "lark". No one double the ability of the young detectives to impersonate the "college boy" perfectly--so the damage will be irreparable. Walters will hide their faces, and what will be much worse, their stores of liquors, whenever a "college boy" heaves in sight; proprietors will see that he is conducted to the farther-most table in the most dismal corner; and patrons will eye him askance with that contemptuous respect ordinarily reserved for enforcers...
...That a bonus would be bad for business and would react to the disadvantage of every citizen including the ex-service men, draining the Treasury of several millions a year for two or three generations...
...prevent any complete success. Under existing conditions, which are unlikely to change very rapidly, the membership is, speaking generally, limited to those who belong to no other club. There is little to be gained by trying to force the Union down an unwilling throat; it is too likely to react unfavorably on the agent...
...passing on the hardship, in one form or another, to the passengers for whom it is incurred. A law which teaches ships to race for the first of the month, and then assesses fines of $100,000 or more for an error of 15 seconds in navigation, will doubtless react to the hardship of immigrants, no matter how administered...
...younger generation. Mr. Tarkington would have made fun of his people. You would have been laughing at them from curtain to curtain. Not so, Mr. Davis. He has observed life well. He writes of it truly. Like all playwrights, Mr. Davis never quite knows just how his public will react to a play. Will they be conscious of the fundamental tragedy of Home Fires or will they, as in Icebound, find more of the comic than the tragic and go away feeling warmly amused ? It is hard to tell. Personally, I have seldom laughed so hard in any theatre...